Jennie Sparrow (110877 / Tahlequah, OK)
In All Obscurities
I wait though I know that you will not come for me.
I disappear so that I can separate myself from you.
You are always late and have no sense of time.
You disappoint and forget important matters.
I allow this to continue on for lack of my own discipline.
I defend the person that you use to be long ago.
You are no longer that one that I remember.
You never apologize when you are wrong.
I must relieve myself of such a defect.
I have to live for myself in all that I reflect.
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